Through one thing and another I have now updated from my Single Din Kenwood 7" screen unit to a new Double Din unit.
This was all installed this afternoon, you would not believe it but my mates pulled the old unit out and had the new one in in under 2 1/2 hours, legends, I could not believe it.
So what I now have is a Opal In-car Multimedia unit with a 6.2" display, I was close to getting an Eclipse 7" fully touch screen unit but this was about a $1000 less in price.
This is probably pretty similar to many of the digi_option units out there and I am sure cheaper again, never less this is what I have chosen.
It comes standard with a 4gb internal memory, sd-card, 2 x usb ports and DVD player, it has been tested with hard drives up to 320gb in size, so I guess I will test that out and load it up with a heap of movies as well.
The whole unit runs off Windows CE 6.0 and is supported with map updates etc. The maps are Navteq I think.
One thing that I liked about this unit is it seemed to be as powerful as I could find with processor and memory as I wanted everything to be smooth and quick. So it supposedly runs a 600mhz cpu and a 300mhz Digital Sound Processing chip, 128mb ram and the 4gb of internal memory, USB 2.0 and 3d hardware capabilities and of course a heap more of the standard who har which comes along with these units.
I am currently sussing out the off road mapping side of things, I know that by the middle of the year which is now only 5 months away I will be able to obtain the next update with 4wd mapping included, supposedly.
Anyway here are a couple of interim pics.
Seeing as I have only just got it, I have not had much time to see how it all compares, but I do think the sound might actually be better than the Kenwood unit which is surprising.